Bharti Dharaiya

SR : literature and religion : Northrop Frye- ritual, myth and archetypes of literature.                       Hello readers!             Here is my blog on Northrop Frye and ritual, myth and archetypes of literature. This blog is given by Professor Dilip Barad Sir.             There is a very close relationship between literature and religion. literary criticism the term archetype denotes narrative designs, pattern of action, character type, theme and images which are identified in a major term of literature as well as in myth and social ritual.              Archetypal Criticism as it applies to literature is a form of criticism " that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes".            ...

       Academic film screening                     Article 15  Hello Readers! Here my blog on movie screening  Article 15. Dr Dilip Barad sir had organised Academic movie screening  Article 15.  Movie Review : Article 15 Article 15 discriminating the citizen on the base of religion, caste , sex ,place, birth ,rular area etc. There is not use of disturbing  music and song only filocus on  insldian constitution and castism and rural area.           The movie Article 15 is directed by Anubhav Sinha and written by Gaurav Solanki. Article 15 is a satirical totally based on caste system  and political system of India. The leading role perform by Ayan  raviyan ( Hero of the movie Ayushman Khurana) He is a one of the besymt IPS officer who was transfer in India. In UP (lalgav). This movie is not only cast and political  element but also...

Feminism : Gayatri Spivak and Elaine Showalter. Hello readers! Welcome to my blog. Here is my blog on Gayatri Spivak and Elaine Showalter's views on feminism. This blog is given by Professor Dilip Barad Sir. Elaine Showalter ( 21 Jan. 1941)          Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia and developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers.          Showalter is a specialist in Victorian literature and Her most designed work in this field is in madness and hysteria in literature, specifically in women's writing and in the portrayal of female characters in her writing.         Elaine Showalter is an American critic famous for her conceptualization...

Thinking Activity : Unit :4 : CS in Practice : Frankenstein and writer's Market Hello readers ! Here is my blog on unit 4 as thinking activity Cultural studies in Practice: Frankenstein and writer's Market. This blog is given by Professor Dilip Barad Sir.  1 ) Frankenpheme in contemporary Indian culture?         Frankenstein in popular culture: fiction , drama, film, television. Timothy Mortan uses the term Frankenpheme. Frankenpheme is drawn from phonemes and graphemes as elements of Culture that are derived from Frankenstein.         Frankenpheme means a person who creates something that brings about his or her ruin. For example Frankenstein's monster is a thing that destroys its creator.         Frankenpheme in contemporary Indian culture we found in films. In the film we can find a monster who destroyed it's creator. For example : Krrish 3 movie. ...

Thinking Activity : Digital Humanities Hello readers! Here is my blog on Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities is part of our syllabus. Given by Professor Dilip Barad Sir. 1 ) Define Digital Humanities?         " The digital  humanities is an area of research, teaching and creation concerned with the intersection computing and the disciples of the Humanities."         " Digital Humanities can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing." 2) What is doing in English Department? Write three reasons out of six given in the article by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Reasons:  After numeric input, text has been by far the most tractable data type for computers to manipulate. Unlike images, audio and so on, there is a long tradition of text based data processing that was withi...

Thinking Activity : Technoculture, Speed and Slow Movement Hello readers! Here is my blog as a thinking activity on Technoculture, speed and slow movement. This task is in our syllabus . This task is given by Professor Dilip Barad Sir. First of all we have to read about the views given by Baudrillard (Hyperreal, simulation and Simulacra) , Paul Virilio (Dromology) and Ulrich Beck (Risk society) and then about slow movement. We have to connect all these dots about the culture of speed and need for the culture of Slow Movement and Slow philosophy. Baudrillard's views on Hyperreal, simulation and Simulacra.          Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original.          Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.          Baudrillar...

Thinking Activity : CS : Unit : 3 : CS in practice : Hamlet and To His Coy mistress. 1 . If two characters  were marginalized in Hamlet, they are even more so in stoppard's handling. If Shakespeare marginalized his powerless in his own Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, stoppard has marginalized in us all in era when - in the eyes of some- all of us are caught up in forces beyond our control?              Two characters are marginalized in Hamlet. The two characters are Rosencrantz and Guidenstern. Shakespeare's Hamlet with a view to seeing power in its Cultural context. The play within the play Claudius is talking privately with Rosencrantz and Guidenstern both are Hamlet's fellow students from Wittenberg. Rosencrantz delivers speech and power of kingship. Guildenstern had agreed that he and Rosencrantz would do the king's bidding. Both speeches are among wholly in character for Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are jellyfish...

Thinking Activity : Cs : Unit 2 : Five types of Cultural studies 1 . Your Understanding of British Cultural Materialism, in your own words?             Materiality is not Cultural but Culture is beyond the materialistics.             For example: Piramid             Another example is that we found materialistics scenes in the movies ,where villains are rich and the hero of the movie belongs to a poor family. So there are conflicts between labor and leisure classes.            British Culture is rather Cultural than American culture.            Cultural studies is referred to as "Cultural Materialism" in Britain and it has a long tradition in Britain. Matthew Arnold sought to redefine the Bri...

Thinking Activity : Unit 1: Cultural Study Here is my blog on Cultural Study as a thinking activity unit one culture study. Task is given by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir. So, here are some questions on Cultural Study. 1) What is Culture ?                According to Matthew Arnold, culture is a study in perfection, in making things better than they are, moved by the moral and social passion for doing good. He notes that religion suggests that the kingdom of God is within you, so culture places perfection in an internal condition. 2) What is Cultural studies?                Cultural studies is hard to define. As was also the case Elaine Showalter's cultural model of feminism difference, " Cultural studies" is not so much a discrete approach at all, but rather a set of practices. As Patrick Brantlinger has pointed out, Cultural studies is not a ...

Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism  Hello readers! Welcome to my blog. Here is my blog on Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism. Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism is in our syllabus. This blog is given by Professor Dilip Barad Sir. Visit Dilip Barad Sir blog for more information. Click here . Our world is correlated with Eco. Eco eco- a combining form representing ecology in the formation of compounds (ecosystem, ecotype) also with the more general sense "environment" and " Nature". So, the combination of environment and women and environment and literature create new term Ecofeminism and Ecocriticism.  # What do you understand by the theory of Ecocriticism? "Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature."          ...